New look UM-Flint student safety program workers

FLINT, MI -- Looking for help from a student safety worker on the University of Michigan-Flint campus?

Keep an eye out for the “Student Safeties”wearing new maize and blue uniforms.

The new getup is designed to make the student workers easier to spot and less likely to be confused with a police officer, according to the university.

Courtesy photoMembers of the UM-Flint Student Safety program wearing the new uniforms.

The program, under the university's Department of Public Safety, has 17 members.

The student workers patrol in and around buildings, parking lots and other areas on campus, often in a DPS golf cart.

“We did not want our Student Safeties being mistaken as a police officer,” said DPS Director Ray Hall in a news release. “The majority of assignments are walking patrol beats inside our buildings, vehicle patrols in and around our major parking ramps and flat lots, and golf cart patrols.”

The carts the Student Safeties use have been updates as well. The carts are maize and blue carts are marked “Public Safety.”

The carts are "used for observation and giving rides to visitors from parking lots to campus buildings. The safeties also provide walking safety escorts," according to the release.